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By Daniel Greenfield
Gov. Josh Shapiro attended an iftar dinner at a mosque where an imam had previously declared that “Jews are the vilest people,” and announced a huge grant for the hate mosque.
The $5 million grant, described as the largest ever given to a Muslim institution, came only five years after the Al-Aqsa Islamic Society in Philly was forced to apologize for posting hateful Islamic sermons by an imam delivered at its mosque declaring that the Arabs were superior to all races, that Jews were the “enemies of Allah” and the “vilest of all people.”
Why It Matters. According to Gov. Shapiro, who is Jewish, however the massive $5 million grant was necessary because “as we’re facing tumult overseas, and we’re facing a lot of rising hate here at home.”
The $5 million giveaway could also be seen as a kind of political payback since Marwan Kreidie, the director of the Arab American Development Corp, is a spokesman for the mosque and had come to Shapiro’s defense during Kamala’s “Veepstakes” when he was being accused of “Islamophobia.” Kreidie wrote an op-ed claiming that Shapiro had phoned to check on him the day after the Oct. 7 attacks, hates Netanyahu and is angry over the deaths of Muslims in Gaza.
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